XBox Live magazines totlly unreadable

There will always be a market for physical television as well because people like to record shows to either keep or watch at their leisure, which can't be done with streaming (or would be a complete pain to do). People want to own their own shows, so they can watch anywhere, anytime, without needing to worry about a device connected to the internet. They can also watch them in clarity of either their cable box, blu-ray or even DVD and not need to worry about bad compression if the internet is wonky. Plus, there are those that just want to have something because not everything is being streamed and not everything streaming is permanent.

The idea of a single-unified streaming hub for all your television content sounds great and 10 years ago, everyone would have thought was amazing. Until you realize that there is no hub that has everything you want. So you have to go out and get Netflix to watch this show, and Amazon Prime to watch that show, and Hulu to watch these shows, or something tied to an iTunes account to watch this, or one of about 10,000 different Ultraviolet networks to find the one or two actually carrying the content you want, or Sling TV to get this channel, or MLB.com to get your baseball stuff, or HBO Go and Starz and whatever to get their proprietary stuff.

A lot of people don't want to deal with that.


That said... I no longer subscribe to any gaming magazines.  When I was a Power-Up Rewards member at Gamestop, one of their big things was a GameInformer subscription.  Upon my last renewal (which they require you to go in-store to do, so they can try and sell you stuff directly), the nice lady behind the counter mentioned 3 or 4 times how much better it would be for me to get the digital version of the magazine as opposed to the printed version.  I'd get it like 2 weeks before I would get a paper copy, and it's less clutter I have to worry about.  I could even read it on my phone, which is something I had thought was for talking and listening, but, nope, it's for reading magazines apparently.  

Well, I gave in and got the digital version.   I think I tried to log in once to view it, but I had to tie-in some account to some other account to do it.  Then I realized that my default browser was too old to view it.  The one I purposely have not updated since 2011, because the 2011 version can do more things than the new version can.  So I went to check it out on my other browser.  I get in and click on a button.  Okay.  Gotta press an arrow and wait a few seconds for the pages to graphically 'flip' to the next page.  Okay, now that text is too tiny to read on the page, because everything is compressed for the screen.  So I resize the window to actually be able to read it.  Then I have to scroll over, and back, and over, and back and so forth for every sentence.  Whoops.  At the end of the page.  Better start scrolling down and over and back and down and over and back and so forth and so long.  Oh, wait... that one article I wanted to read was on page 87!  Okay.  Click the page turn button and wait five seconds.  Okay.  Do that again.   And again.   Do it 40 more times.   There we are.  And now that 7 minutes have gone by, I can start scrolling the pages again to read the thinly-veiled advertisement for Gamestop's next big sales push. Got it.  

Clearly, it is MUCH BETTER than having the actual physical copy in my hand.  

BTW... I recently pulled out something like 5 years of PSM magazines I had in my basement at one point during "the flood."  Unlike the EGMS, GamePros, Nintendo Powers and others... these were in containers and seem to be in actual readable condition.  Have them in other containers NOT in the basement now.